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What You Need to Know About Sugar

There is a difference between natural and refined sugar. Reducing your consumption of added sugar can be done by making small changes; choosing unsweetened beverages like water and teas in place of sweetened beverages, and reading food labels in order to determine the amount of added sugars in your foods is a good start.

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Feeding a Teen Vegetarian in 3 Steps

As kids stake claims to their independence when it comes to eating, more tweens and teens are experimenting with vegetarian and vegan diets. Parents may be concerned that their children are undernourished when adopting these eating patterns, but they can rest easy. Kids can thrive on plant-based diets. All parents need are these 3 steps for feeding a tween or teen vegetarian…

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4 Tips for Feeding Vegetarians

Catering to the individual needs of eaters can be a difficult challenge, even for the most well-prepared cooks. When a member of the house is a vegetarian, creating meals that are both nourishing for the vegetarian and suitable for the meat-and-potatoes crowd can seem almost impossible. But, with these four tips, feeding a vegetarian in a meat-eating household is as easy as 1, 2, 3 (and 4)!

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Mindful Eating: Back to Basics

People often follow food and diet rules that they believe will help them reach their health goals. These rules might be what to eat, what not to eat, when to eat, or even how to eat. All of this can become overwhelming and cause even the most motivated health-seeker to give up altogether. Will mindful eating help people’s efforts to eat healthfully?

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Shopping Beyond the Perimeter

For years, dietitians and health professionals have been promoting one method of food shopping — “shopping the perimeter” — as a way to help you choose foods that support a healthy diet. These foods are certainly the mainstays of a healthy diet, but if you are only shopping the periphery, you are missing out on some key nutrients in items that reside within the middle of the store. Let’s check out some of these nutrient-dense gems that you will find beyond the perimeter.

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Packed Lunches Can Pack a Nutritional Punch

August is Back-To-School Month, Kids Eat Right Month, and Sandwich Month! What better way to celebrate all these occasions than with a brand-new article about packing healthful lunches? Beth Rosen, MS, RD, CDN, has all the details...

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Diets for Kids?

Good news! Today I'm cracking the vault to bring you a brand-new article by Beth Rosen, MS, RD. Beth created this incredible handout for the exclusive Communicating Food for Health newsletter, but it got such good reviews that I want to share it with you today. So without further ado, let's take a look at ways to help overweight children...

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